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Hammond wins U.S. Kids golf event

Staff report
Published 3:20 p.m. ET July 5, 2017

Crooksville’s Mia Hammond poses with her trophy after winning the 8-9-year-old division of the U.S. Kids Golf Ohio State Invitational at Avalon Lakes Golf Club in Warren. Hammond has won 15 of her last 19 tournaments.(Photo: Submitted)

Crooksville’s Mia Hammond shot a two-round score of 1-over-par 73 to win the fifth annual U.S. Kids Golf Ohio State Invitational recently at Avalon Lakes Golf Club in Warren.

The event was open to players ages 5-14.

Hammond, in her third year of competitive golf, played in the 8-9-year-old division and won by five shots over Fairview Park’s Cammy Reed and by nine shots over Dublin’s Angelina Gong. There were nine players in the field.

Hammond’s division played two nine hole rounds covering two days.

Hammon has won 15 of the last 19 tournaments in which she has played and is averaging 37.8 for nine holes on the season. She will compete in the U.S. Kids World Championship, set for the first week of August, at Pinehurst, N.C. The event includes the top 80 players in her age group in the world.

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